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| 914four |
Oct 17 2016, 07:36 PM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 525 Joined: 4-March 07 From: Rainbow City, Alabama Member No.: 7,582 Region Association: South East States
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Running down a bucking issue and found my MPS to be leaking. After rebuilding the MPS and verifying a good seal, everything went back together okay. When I started the car, the engine surged up and down and would not idle.
The electrical connector socket on the MPS does not appear to be keyed and using the diagram below from Clay's D-Jet troubleshooting guide it seems I may have plugged in the MPS wire incorrectly. I ohmed the wires from the ECU connector to the MPS socket and made sure the wires are in the order shown in the diagram. The wires look to be looping back from terminal 7 to 15 and 8 to 10 so that the socket could be plugged in either way and work correctly. Could plugging in the MPS wires incorrectly have damaged the ECU? If not, what should I be looking for that would cause the surging and lack of idle? |
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| pbanders |
Oct 17 2016, 07:47 PM
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You can't plug the MPS in incorrectly, you didn't damage the ECU. Wildly varying idle makes me think first of a vacuum leak. Have you checked carefully to make sure you didn't inadvertently pull a vacuum line off when you were swapping the MPS? Suggest you check my page (see sig) and others to make sure you have the vacuum hoses right, and that all components in the D-Jet are correctly connected and functioning. Take a look at the idle mixture adjustment knob on the ECU, you may have set it to full lean when your MPS was malfunctioning/leaking (which makes it rich), and now you're full lean. There's an indicator on the knob, try setting it to the middle of the range as that's the "factory" setting, about 3% CO.
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914four Surging and Unsettled Idel after MPS Rebuild Oct 17 2016, 07:36 PM
Rand It's lean. Which means vacuum leak somewhere a... Oct 17 2016, 07:39 PM
914four
You can't plug the MPS in incorrectly, you di... Oct 17 2016, 08:13 PM
Jeff Bowlsby The MPS may be calibrated too lean for your engine... Oct 17 2016, 10:26 PM
pbanders
The MPS may be calibrated too lean for your engin... Oct 17 2016, 11:19 PM
Philip W. I agree with all the above,
you are running lean-... Oct 18 2016, 06:33 AM
pbanders
Jeff Bowlsby can check your MPS and set it to th... Oct 18 2016, 08:11 AM
Bleyseng You are running too lean and need to use a AF mete... Oct 18 2016, 08:07 AM
914four Thank you all for the responses. I was able to ch... Oct 18 2016, 11:16 AM
Racer Chris Kelvin,
You have the adjustment tools. It may take... Oct 18 2016, 11:32 AM
914four
Kelvin,
You have the adjustment tools. It may tak... Oct 19 2016, 09:17 PM
pbanders
Thank you for the direction on the MPS. I was ab... Oct 20 2016, 09:28 AM
zambezi What would you recommend for a good tester to test... Oct 20 2016, 10:39 AM
pbanders
What would you recommend for a good tester to tes... Oct 20 2016, 02:16 PM
914four Success!
I disassembled the MPS and added t... Oct 20 2016, 08:36 PM
914four So far I my car has been running smother than ever... Nov 3 2016, 06:24 PM
pbanders
So far I my car has been running smother than eve... Nov 3 2016, 11:19 PM
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